Crucifixion is a cruel method of execution. This capital punishment was perfected during the Roman Empire. Despite being a frequent practice, there is only one well-documented anthropological case of crucifixion in the world at the Jerusalem burial cave (Giv’at ha-Mivtar, first century AD). We found a particular lesion on the foot of a skeleton from an isolated Roman burial discovered by excavation in 2007 in northern Italy. Here we suggest crucifixion as a possible cause of the lesion, but this interpretation is complicated by the poor preservation of the bone surfaces and the damage and holes in other skeletal parts. To assess the biological identity of the deceased and the possible effects of ante-mortem violence on this subject, we perf...
Traumatic lesions are among the most important sources of data providing information associated to i...
This is the medical history of three skeletons from archaeological sites in the province of Varese t...
The bioarchaeological and forensic approach is increasingly applied in the study of funerary contex...
Aim: the purpose of this study is to investigate the ante-mortem cranial traumas in the skeletal rem...
Although the issue of torture and capital punishment has been addressed in the forensic literature, ...
The anthropological study of some northern Italian burial sites has shown interesting cases of crani...
Forensic and archaeological examinations of human skeletons can provide us with evidence of violence...
Recent archaeological excavations at the Carcer/Tullianum, in the Roman Forum, allowed the unexpecte...
This paper discusses the results of the analysis carried out on a female skull coming from a collect...
An isolated human cranium, dated to the early Eneolithic period, was discovered in 2015 at the top o...
Human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts occasionally present signs of traumatic injuries...
Archaeological excavations carried out in the square around the Cathedral of S. Giovanni in Turin br...
During excavations carried out at the necropolis of San Genesio, taphonomic analysis permitted the d...
Traumatic lesions are among the most important sources of data providing information associated to i...
This is the medical history of three skeletons from archaeological sites in the province of Varese t...
The bioarchaeological and forensic approach is increasingly applied in the study of funerary contex...
Aim: the purpose of this study is to investigate the ante-mortem cranial traumas in the skeletal rem...
Although the issue of torture and capital punishment has been addressed in the forensic literature, ...
The anthropological study of some northern Italian burial sites has shown interesting cases of crani...
Forensic and archaeological examinations of human skeletons can provide us with evidence of violence...
Recent archaeological excavations at the Carcer/Tullianum, in the Roman Forum, allowed the unexpecte...
This paper discusses the results of the analysis carried out on a female skull coming from a collect...
An isolated human cranium, dated to the early Eneolithic period, was discovered in 2015 at the top o...
Human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts occasionally present signs of traumatic injuries...
Archaeological excavations carried out in the square around the Cathedral of S. Giovanni in Turin br...
During excavations carried out at the necropolis of San Genesio, taphonomic analysis permitted the d...
Traumatic lesions are among the most important sources of data providing information associated to i...
This is the medical history of three skeletons from archaeological sites in the province of Varese t...
The bioarchaeological and forensic approach is increasingly applied in the study of funerary contex...